Saturday, March 21, 2009

Lloyd & I stopped by to see Dyer the Flyer (ag pilot) in Marshall on our way to Iowa. Dyer's collected crocks, all sizes from the biggest to the smallest. Also has a collection of license plates from all over the country!

Sign in Marshall. ooops

Murals in Chilicothe

Tractors along the way.

After ribs at Hickory Park in Ames, LAD picked out some new goldfish at WM. Of course, "I want THAT one! NO, THAT one." Well, not really, it was just scoop & dip & here ya are.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

There are still two crocus blossoms hiding under the rubble of grassat the airport sign, near the clump of daffodils.

The FAA King Air flew the VOR/GPS instrument approach into Mtn. Grovetoday, went around on the missed approach, then flewoff back to the Dogwood VOR west of Ava. They fly the approachesaround the state periodically, checking the technical details.I hope they were impressed with our new grass, which is greeningup more and more every day. They probably didn't even look down.I thought I caught it with one main gear hanging out, but didn't.That's black paint on the forward underside of the gear/enginecompartments. The gear doors are the blue farthest back part ofthe nacelle. The gear retraction would have begun after throttle upat the missed approach point, west of the runway. We are half a mile east of therunway, so it took that long to retract. Perhaps a mile and a half to 2 miles.

Gene Pascoe was a good friend in our EAA chapterin Willow Springs. He passed away on tuesday, after abattle with heart disease. He recently had openheart surgery. Gene was 83. He was always an activehand on the ground crew when we flew Young Eagles,and was a past treasurer of the Chapter. We'll miss him!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Randy and Lloyd were supposed to go to the Ag Pilots'fly-in over in the bootheel today. So Randy flew theCherokee 140 down here from Iowa. Then the plan wasfor Randy to fly the Ag Husky to the bootheel, with Lloyddriving over there. Then the plan was further laid outto go to Georgia to look at another ag plane they just bought.

Plan B: after getting the mail, just before Randy landed inthe 140, Lloyd discovered the fly-in has been postponeduntil mid-April. OK, plan C.Plan C: Randy returned to Iowa in the Ag Husky, so heand his "boss" Bill could go to Florida and retrieve a Beech 18.

OK, we'll see if Plan C gets accomplished.

Meanwhile, Ron and his son Chance showed up for fuelin his nice Beech Skipper.

Plan E: Ben and Bruce took the 140 for a spin to the local areaairports. No pictures.